Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:46:54 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_Wider=F8e_Andersen?=" <wodfer@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble installing 6.1 on an old machine Message-ID: <23ed14b80609040346j61389e65u16a83b7401e09467@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <23ed14b80609040132i17173867n5e1852917a3a4e73@mail.gmail.com> References: <23ed14b80609040132i17173867n5e1852917a3a4e73@mail.gmail.com>
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I just downloaded version 4.11 from the FreeBSD ftp archives, burnt a boot CD and tried to reinstall the system via FTP from the archives. This worked perfect. No problems. I guess this means it's not a hardware problem, but rather some changes mad= e to newer versions of FreeBSD. Anyone know what I can do to get 6.1 up and running on this ancient machine= ? Cheers, Andreas --- On 9/4/06, Andreas Wider=F8e Andersen <wodfer@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have an OLD machine (from 1996) that's been running FreeBSD for about 8 > years now steady and reliable. It has gone through several versions and w= as > running 4.11 untill today when I decided to make a fresh 6.1 install. > > When booting from the installation CD the only way I can make it skip a > lot of harddrive errors is when I boot in safe mode. I did this and > installed the system. However, the same problems are there when I reboot > from harddrive after the install (not in safe mode). > > Here are a few of the error messages I get: > > ad0: Failure READ_DMA timed out LBA=3D0 > ad1: Failure READ_DMA timed out LBA=3D13281487 > ad1: Timeout READ_DMA retrying (1 retry left) LBA=3D0 > and so on... > > It ends with a mountroot> prompt. > > Any ideas what I can try? > > Thanks, > Andreas >
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